David Goldfarb and Greg Morrow wrote complete annotations for Neil Gaiman’s popular (and deservedly so) Sandman. The annotations are hosted by Ralf Hildebrandt here in a different layout (by graphic novel); this latter site also has all of them in a single zip file. Also, as noted above, Ng Kiat Han has annotated Sandman #75.

Jess Nevins has put together an amazing run of annotations (see the Alan Moore Annotations section of the site for more of his work). Three of his annotations focus on DC mini-series:

The Kingdom Come mini-series: Issue #1, Issue #2, Issue #3, and Issue #4. [Note: for more on Kingdom Come, Alphonso Mason did some very funny pseudo-parody annotations of Lethargic Lad #3, which in itself was a parody issue of the Kingdom Come series.]

Justice League of America: The Nail (a.k.a., JLA: The Nail). This was a 3-issue mini-series: Issue #1, Issue #2, and Issue #3.

Jess has given me permission to mirror his annotations, so they’re hosted here. If you’re into the Golden Age, you should also take a trip to his site, as it has lots of Golden Age information on it.

Adrian Brown has started doing some pretty extensive annotations for Hellblazer, starting with #175. He’s also done #3, separately.

Steve Higgins has done a very nice job with both summaries and annotations for Batman: The Long Halloween (by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale). I’m particularly excited about this one as I just picked up the graphic novel….

Julian Darius of Sequart.com has done annotations for the movie Batman Begins, with a scene by scene look commenting heavily on the comics precedents. Direct links to all 6 parts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6. Note: Julian expanded his annotations on the film “Batman Begins” to include essays, box office numbers of all of the Batman films, and a section about previous attempts to bring the failing Batman film franchise back from the dead. The book, titled Batman Begins and the Comics is for sale at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble’s website, as well as “fine bookstores throughout the country”. Congratulation to Julian!

Jackie Williams has written (and recently updated) annotations to Peter David’s “Fallen Angel” series. They even include some comments from Peter David himself. Click for issue #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, and #7.

Ng Kiat Han has annotated Sandman #75. Neil’s (the man himself) quote on these annotations: “enjoyed your annotations, and I thought they were competent and fairly solid.”

Scott Hollifield compiled extensive annotations for the 1993/1994 four issue Elseworlds mini-series “The Golden Age: A Different Look at a Different Era”, written by James Robinson and illustrated by Paul Martin. It took me forever to find the annotations for the fourth book, but I am happy to say that the complete version is now available here.

Another Elseworld story that has been well annotated is Elseworld’s Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl, written by Barbara Kesel and illustrated by Matt Haley and Tom Simmons. Urac Daria Sigma did the annotations.

If you’re into both Batman and Elseworld stories, Loki Carbis has done some nice annotations for Batman: Holy Terror, written by Alan Brennert & Norm Breyfogle.

The Invisibles has received a lot of attention. Jay Babcock has pulled together annotations and plot synopses for Volume 1 (issues 1-25) and Volume 2 (issues 1-21). Ted Faber has also written some annotations, which go up to Volume 3 #12 (so far). Finally, at The Bomb — an excellent site dedicated solely to The Invisibles — there’s an episode guide that includes annotations and a whole bunch of other stuff.

An amazing collection of annotations all centering around The Doom Patrol (since it’s 1963 inception!) have been written by Lou Mougin, Tom Ripley, Robert Kelly, William Sherman, John Bullough, and Kyle Seifried. You can find their site here.

The mini-series Lucifer: The Morningstar Option had 2 of its first 3 issues annotated by David Hawkins. Here are the links to Issue #1 and Issue #2.

Sanjay Shah and YourMomsBasement.com have started a new column where they break down comic book runs that “usually get passed over”. Their first guide is for the Denny O’Neil & Denys Cowen’s volume of The Question (published by DC Comics in 1986). They break down all 36 issues, citing the creators’ influences, here.

Matt Peckham (of Lucifer fan site and annotation fame) has started annotating Si Spencer and Neil Gaiman’s Books of Magick monthly, from the beginning. Here are annotations to #1. He also has a new blogsite about the series.